‘Cannabis and food do go together’: Travis Petersen says the appetite is growing. The legal sale of edible cannabis is still a year off but a Canadian travelling chef is discovering a definite appetite for it at his private parties and events. Travis Petersen, the chef and owner at The Nomad Cook, a Vancouver company that hosts pop-up dinners, has started catering events serving cannabis-infused dishes. "Cannabis and food do go together. Some Read entire story

The team at a Whitby, Ont., brewing company is in high spirits, as they’re hopeful a new joint venture will bring in big business. Brock St. Brewing Company has partnered with Province Brands to produce a new kind of beer, a brew that may get you high, which the head of the company says will hit the market once edibles become legal in Ontario. The brewery has signed a licensing agreement with Province Brands, which…
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Canadian police have not seen a spike in cannabis-impaired driving one month since legalization, but there needs to be more awareness of laws around storing marijuana in vehicles and passengers smoking weed, law enforcement officials say. The Canadian Press canvassed police forces and provincial and territorial Crowns across the country and while some said it was too early to provide data, others said initial numbers and anecdotal impressions Read entire story

Annette Walker hasn't been able to fill her adult daughter's prescription for a month. Annette Walker worries she'll no longer be able to keep her daughter's tears at bay. Walker's daughter Akasha Cadieux, 29, has Rett syndrome, a disease which has left her in a wheelchair, unable to talk and eating through a feeding tube. Her doctor recommended treating Cadieux with cannabis oil and Walker, though skeptical at first, said the change has been Read entire story

'We're standing up for cannabis culture,' says Christopher Mennillo, co-owner of a head shop chain. On the eve of Canada’s legalization of pot for recreational use, and with huge consumer demand anticipated, one of the country’s largest licensed producers was forced to destroy an entire crop of weed. It was a million-dollar hit for Aphria Inc. when 14,000 harvest-ready marijuana plants had to be tossed out in August. Between bud and trim for oil Read entire story

More fully-licensed cannabis growers and cultivation space are needed to meet a voracious demand for legal marijuana, a spokesman for the industry said last week. That means more licences for both producers and their grow areas need to be issued by Health Canada, said Allan Rewak, executive director of the Cannabis Council of Canada. “Absolutely, we need more licensed producers, we need Health Canada to approve more production sites,” said Rewak, Read entire story

Just one store online, two stores have closed because of supply shortage. Saskatchewan's marijuana business continues to be an uphill struggle for its retailers nearly three weeks after legalization. Only five stores are currently open in the province. SLGA has issued permits to just nine of the 51 winners of the provincial lottery that decided who could open a recreational pot shop. David Morris with SLGA said there are a lot of pieces to Read entire story

Someone used Canada Post's delivery tracking tool to access postal codes and names or initials of the person who accepted delivery of marijuana. Canada Post publicly admitted to a privacy breach involving thousands of Ontario’s online cannabis customers on Wednesday after the province’s only outlet for legal recreational marijuana notified clients of the problem. The postal service said in a statement that someone had used its delivery tracking Read entire story

November 06, 2018, CanadaWhen he took the first step to legalize recreational marijuana across Canada, the country’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had a mission in mind and that was to clamp down on the mafia-linked to the cannabis industry. However, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC News) recently published a report that shows ties between some of the country’s largest cannabis producers and the organized mafia.Immediately after the Read entire story

Weed producer TerrAscend Canada admits 'an incorrect description' was provided to OCS A big mistake made in the description of a product listed on Ontario Cannabis Store (OCS) website is the latest hiccup for the only legal retailer of weed in the province. Peter Lyon, a 27-year-old sales rep for a Toronto company, logged on to the OCS website hours after it went live to make a purchase. "I searched for a high THC cannabis…
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Canadians the age of majority in their province can grow up to four plants a household, yet there is no legal means to obtain seeds. Licensed cannabis producers have put filling Canadians’ pot demands ahead of their desire to fill pots. With federal legalization of recreational cannabis on Oct. 17, Canadians the age of majority in most provinces (19 in B.C.) gained the right to grow up to four plants per household, yet there is…
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KushCo Holdings, a company that sells packaging and supplies to the cannabis industry, would love to borrow money from a real bank. CEO Nick Kovacevich wants to secure up to $30 million in revolving credit, so he can hire more employees and build new warehouses. But a line of credit or loan of that size isn't an option because traditional banks are not willing to lend to marijuana businesses. Even though Canada legalized recreational Read entire story

Pearson International Airport in Toronto has installed cannabis disposal bins for the use of passengers of international flights. The disposal containers appeared at the airport after the recent legalization of recreational cannabis in Canada, along with a printed sign indicating their intended use.
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It’s a packed house in Vancouver, BC. The air is dripping with the scent of Lemon Haze as thick cannabis clouds billow out of the half dozen dab rigs being hit in quick succession by the enthusiastic patrons of the Cannabis Culture Lounge & Dab Bar—one of the world’s most pot-friendly establishments.
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October 17th: a day Canadians will remember for a long time.
Or maybe not, considering it’s the day Canada legalized weed across the entire country. Naturally, the internet went nuts. Here are some of our favorite memes about Canada’s change for the greener:
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